Dookとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

1. (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.
   • 2014, Timothy Smith, Chinook the Ferret's Halloween Adventure, page 1:

     The sun has gone down - what's that dooking sound? It must be trick or treating time. I glance across the bedroom floor and I see Chinook and Nikomi's ferret eyes.

派生語

名詞

dook (plural dooks)

1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

語源 2

From duck.

動詞

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

1. (dialect) Alternative form of duck
   • 1835, James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2:

     But anger is a blin' guide — he dooked from the first blow, an' it passed wi' little ill; an' he raised his drawn sword, an' made a wild cut at my head...

派生した語

• Welsh: dowcio (“to plunge, to dive”)

語源 3

From Dutch doek (“cloth, fabric, canvas”), from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *dōc, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk- (“cloth”). See also duck (cloth).

別の表記

• doock

名詞

dook (countable and uncountable, plural dooks)

1. (UK dialectal) A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

派生語

• dooky
• sail-doock

語源 4

名詞

dook (plural dooks)

1. (Scotland) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.

語源 5

名詞

dook (uncountable)

1. (slang) dookie; feces
   • 2016, A. F. Knott, The Trainee:

     I'm sick of people messing up my bathroom. […] I don't like seeing logs of dook at the bottom of the bowl when I go in there.

語源 6

名詞

dook (plural dooks)

1. (mining, historical, Scotland, northern England) A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.

語源 7

名詞

dook (plural dooks)

1. Eye dialect spelling of duke (“a fist”).

   Put up your dooks!

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• doko, kodo